One class in different files.

kult

Hello,

I did a display class like that:
class silverblueDisplayHTML extends DisplayHTML {
//The code of the classs//
//Up to 3200 lines of code and it's not finished!!!

}

I'd like to put some of the class functions in another file not to have a 3 200 lines file!
But when I do in the class:
require("menudisplay.inc.php") ;
or
include("menudisplay.inc.php") ;
I get this error:
Parse error: parse error, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION' orT_FUNCTION' or T_VAR' or'}'' in thefile.php on line 5

Is there anyway to do a class in different files ?

Thanks.

bernouli

and what is it on line 5 in thefile.php?

Weedpacket

I wouldn't worry about it that much - it will still take up the same resources once it's loaded - and it would all have to be loaded anyway, whether it's in one file or fifty.

Besides, 3200 lines isn't a lot.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by bernouli
and what is it on line 5 in thefile.php?

The include statement. (Interesting, my copy of PHP tells me an unexpected T_INCLUDE was found...)

I'm wondering whether this behaviour (non-inclusion in classes) is a bug or not. Generally, include files are for commonly used portions of code (class definitions, abstraction layers, utility functions, etc.). If the included file in this situation were similar, then it would be cause to abstract those common functions out into a superclass. Furthermore, allowing files to be included in class defintions would almost be multiple inheritance by the back door.

Instead, this include is just being used to make a particular file physically smaller - which ultimately makes no difference to the code or to PHP.

Does that sound like enough justification for the behaviour?

kult

There is require("anotherfile.php") ; on line 5.
Anyway, I think, i'm going to let the BIG file be a big file. Even if to the end it'll be a 5 000 lines file...according to Weedpacket

bernouli

but.... 5000 lines are too much 😃